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Lansvale is a
suburb
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of
Sydney
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, in the state of
New South Wales
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,
Australia
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28 kilometres south-west of the
Sydney central business district
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, the other side of Chipping Norton and its lake, in the
local government area
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s of the
City of Fairfield
The Fairfield City Council is a local government area in the west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The council was first incorporated as the "Municipal District of Smithfield and Fairfield" on 8 December 1888, and the coun ...
and is part of the
South-western Sydney
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Local government ...
region.
History
Lansvale took its name from a combination of the names of the neighbouring suburbs of
Lansdowne Lansdowne or Lansdown may refer to:
People
* Lansdown Guilding (1797–1831), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines naturalist and engraver
*Fenwick Lansdowne (1937–2008), Canadian wildlife artist
* George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) ...
and
Canley Vale
Canley Vale is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Canley Vale is located 30 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Fairfield and is part of the South ...
. This area was a most popular recreational site of the early twentieth century. Latty's Pleasure Grounds, the Butterfly Hall, Hollywood Park and the Lansdowne Reserve were popular ventures which fringed the river and lakes system. The amusement parks were struggling by the time of the
Great Depression
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and eventually the land that they occupied was acquired by the council for public reserves. It is a little-known fact that the first games of Rugby League football in Australia, in early 1908, were trial games that took place in Lansvale, at Latty's Pleasure Grounds. This was before the first official competition games tookplace at venues closer to the City of Sydney, and well before professional Rugby League clubs came to the further western suburbs of Sydney, such as Parramatta, Canterbury-Bankstown and Western Suburbs.
The suburb developed in the 1950s when the peripheral areas of Bankstown municipality assumed identities of their own. One popular housing estate is known as ''River Heights'', where stylishly designed houses with every modern detail and a luxurious finish have been built.
A local landmark is
Lansdowne Bridge
The Lansdowne Bridge is a heritage-listed road bridge that carries the northbound carriageway of the Hume Highway (route A22 at this point) across Prospect Creek between Lansvale and Lansdowne. Situated in southwestern Sydney it is located on ...
, a sandstone bridge built between 1834 and 1836, designed and supervised by
David Lennox
David Lennox (1788 – 12 November 1873) was a Scottish-Australian bridge builder and master stonemason born in Ayr, Scotland.
Personal details
Trained as a stonemason, Lennox worked on Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge at Anglesey in Wales ...
. The bridge is listed on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate.
[The Heritage of Australia, 1981, p.2/24] Magic Kingdom
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was an amusement park that operated in Lansvale from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Heritage listings
Lansvale has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
* Hume Highway:
Lansdowne Bridge
The Lansdowne Bridge is a heritage-listed road bridge that carries the northbound carriageway of the Hume Highway (route A22 at this point) across Prospect Creek between Lansvale and Lansdowne. Situated in southwestern Sydney it is located on ...
People
According to the
2016 census, Lansvale had a population of 2,570 people with a median age of 39, which was slightly higher than the national median age of 38. About half of these people were born in Australia (49.2%), with the other most common countries of birth being Vietnam (21.4%), New Zealand (1.9%), China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) (1.9%), Cambodia (1.8%) and Lebanon (1.6%). The majority of people spoke a language other than English at home (62.0%), with Vietnamese (31.1%), Arabic (7.0%), Cantonese (3.9%), Khmer (2.0%) and Mandarin (1.8%) forming the top responses for languages spoken at home. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 23.4%, Buddhism 21.5% and No Religion 17.1%.
Housing
As at the
2016 census, Lansvale had a total of 756 occupied private dwellings, of which 96.0% were separate houses, 2.2% were semi-detached dwellings, 0.7% were flats or apartments and 1.1% were other dwellings. Of these occupied private dwellings, 38.7% were owned outright, 35.9% were owned with a mortgage and 21.1% were rented.
See also
*
Magic Kingdom, Sydney
Magic Kingdom was a small amusement park located in Lansvale, New South Wales, Australia. It is now closed.
History and operation
The park operated in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The park was closed not long after Wonderland Sydney opened. ...
References
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